New York Times workers threaten Election Day strike if their bizarre demands aren’t met

Tech workers at the New York Times are threatening to go on strike for Election Day if their demands aren’t met as the battle between the union and the paper over a new contract drags on.

Among the list of perks that the 600-member Times Tech Guild is demanding are a four-day workweek with a “significant” pay hike, bereavement leave for pets, trigger warnings when discussing news events, and a breakroom ban on scented products, according to media reports.

The list would be considered to be unusual requests in a saner time but typical in today’s era of pampered “woke” leftist brat employees.

The union employees also want “full coverage of all healthcare premiums for employees and family members, guaranteed RSU grants for all members of the unit, and non-performance-based annual bonuses, all of which the company estimates would cost over $100 million over three years,” Semafor reported.

Also on the list of demands is job security for foreigners in the U.S. on visas to protect them from layoffs.

The union, which represents software engineers and other tech staffers and is separate from the paper’s union for newsroom employees, voted to authorize a strike last week with the timing that it could come during the election being used as leverage against management which has balked at the obscene demands from their crybaby workers.

According to the New York Post, “Members of the Tech Guild earn an average salary of $190,000 a year, which includes salary, bonuses and restricted stock options — about $40,000 more than their brethren in unions that represent journalists at the publication, according to the company.”

NYT spokesperson Danielle Rhoads told the outlet that the paper, “look[s] forward to working with the group to reach a fair contract, that takes into account that they are already among the highest paid in the Company and journalism is our top priority.”

“Since July 2022, bargaining has been focusing on a broad range of non-economic proposals from the TechGuild such as pet bereavement leave, unscented cleaning products, and banning machine learning among many other topics that are typically not part of collective bargaining agreements,” Rhoads added.

An Election Day strike does not serve the interests of a paper that has become the nation’s preeminent propaganda organ for the Democratic Party as well as the top delivery system for negative stories about former President Donald J. Trump that are then amplified by other media outlets loyal to the regime.

The union knows that the timing would cause a massive disruption and it’s “no accident” that the threat of a strike coincides with the election, according to the Daily Mail.

“NYT has credible competitors, so it’s not a matter of whether news from trustworthy sources is going to be available,” Semafor quoted an unnamed staffer, citing a “source familiar with the details” of an internal union meeting last month.

“Times management likes to compare the journalists to the Tech Guild only when it suits them,” a spokesperson for the union told Semafor. “In terms of salaries, wages vary widely across both unions but we are happy to discuss executive compensation relative to workers at the Times.”

Chris Donaldson

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